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Subjective evaluations : discretionary bonuses and feedback credibility

Fuchs, William - 2013

We provide a new rationale for the use of discretionary bonuses. In a setting with unknown match qualities between a worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful in order to make the feedback from the firm to the workers credible. This way workers in good...

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Gender differences in job search and the earnings gap: evidence from business majors

Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica; Pilossoph, Laura; … - 2021

search period. Using survey data on risk preferences and beliefs about expected future earnings, we present empirical …

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Information, intermediaries, and international migration

Bazzi, Samuel; Cameron, Lisa Ann; Schaner, Simone; … - 2021

change intentions to migrate or beliefs about the return to migration or intermediary quality. Nor does selection explain the …

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Gender stereotyping and self-stereotyping attitudes : a large field study of managers

Eriksson, Tor; Smith, Nina; Smith, Valdemar - 2017

at lower levels. Female managers have stronger beliefs in their own managerial abilities regarding feminine skills and … weaker beliefs in their masculine skills, whereas the opposite is observed for male managers. Gender stereotypes and self …-stereotypes vary across types of managerial employees and firms. Beliefs in own ability could explain at most ten percent of the …

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The more you know : information effects on job application rates in a large field experiment

Gee, Laura K. - 2016

This paper presents the results from a 2.3 million person field experiment that varies whether or not a job seeker sees the number of applicants for a job posting on a large job posting website, LinkedIn. This intervention increases the likelihood that a person will finish an application by...

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Denial and alarmism in collective action problems

Förster, Manuel; Weele, Joël J. van der - 2018

We analyze communication about the social returns to investment in a public good. We model two agents who have private information about these returns as well as their own taste for cooperation, or social preferences. Before deciding to contribute or not, each agent submits an unverifiable...

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Signaling and employer learning with instruments

Aryal, Gaurab; Bhuller, Manudeep; Lange, Fabian - 2020

The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately identify and estimate the social and private returns to education within the employer learning...

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Papa does preach : daughters and polarisation of attitudes toward abortion

Effenterre, Clémentine van - 2017

This article examines the hypothesis that having daughters polarises male politicians' attitudes toward abortion rights. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters decreases support for abortion law by 25% for right-wing congressmen in France, and increases support for...

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Do female experts face an authority gap? : evidence from economics

Sievertsen, Hans Henrik; Smith, Sarah - 2024

This paper reports results from a survey experiment comparing the effect of (the same) opinions expressed by male versus female experts. Members of the public were asked for their opinions on topical issues and shown the opinion of either a male or a female economist, all professors at leading...

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Physicians treating physicians : relational and informational advantages in treatment and survival

Chen, Stacey H.; Chen, Jennjou; Chuang, Hongwei; Lin, … - 2023

We use the medical specialties of physician-patients with advanced cancer to study the role of knowledge versus networks in treatment choices and patient survival by matching comparable patients with doctors and admission periods to control unobserved doctor quality. Physician-patients are less...

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